CONCLUSION
Banting's discovery meant everything to Elizabeth Hughes and her family, but his exploration has also impacted millions of other people with diabetes. Anyone who is insulin dependent owes their life to Banting. Each time someone is diagnosed with diabetes they encounter insulin, which lets them exchange a premature death for a normal life.
He [Banting] has made one of the greatest discoveries of modern medicine, and the name Banting will be written large in medical history. The best men have been trying without success for thirty years to do what he has done in less than two. And he was not a diabetes specialist, but a surgeon when he started.
-Frederick Allen, MD